Warner Brothers' greedy Microtransactions in Shadow of War.

[librarian13579]

Cerebralbore101 said:

librarian13579 said:

This is the future of AAA gaming, folks.

Games-as-a-service bullshit is profoundly insidious. One day it will entrench its roots so firmly that soon, even single-player games will require a constant connection to an online server.

We're letting them get away with it, and more and more studios are turning to this. Activision, EA, Valve, Rockstar, Ubisoft, Warner Bros....they're all moving in the same direction.

*Hugs massive collection of physical games tightly.*

I'm pretty much a 100% retro gamer nowadays. It's a casualty of spending decades in the industry where owning a video game was like owning a book.

I can still go way back to 1997 and play Goldeneye 007 with my friends, just like how I can read my old books from when I was a kid.

Will we be able to properly play the majority of AAA games 20 years from now when the servers shut off? Not a chance in hell. So I don't even bother.